6 thoughts on “The French Revolutionary Calendar”

    1. I’ve always assumed that the SI hired Groucho Marx’s mom to come up with the names at the extreme ends of the SI units of scale.

  1. This is why our friends to the left are colonizing the calendar and refusing to use BC and AD in favor of other acronyms that mean the same thing. Only this time, it is incremental.

    Beware the Ides of Thermidor.

    1. It never really made any sense to me what the end game was for using CE and BCE, when the time scale still acknowledged the event that led to the split between AD and BC in the first place.

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